Quote of the Day for 2015-10-10

"If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738

Ernest Hemingway writing at a desk while on safari in Africa,1953. (Photo courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-28

"Necessity never made a good bargain"

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735

Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, and John Cleese in the "Won't Haggle" scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979).

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-04

"Man [is a] tool-making animal."

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1778

Stone Hand-Axe, Number 2,2014 by Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow